The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Weekly News Summary.

1T Is eXDeCUPu IndU IDe new OpeTd-nOuSb
at Bellows Falls will be dedicated in June.
JUDGE THuRsToN of Nebraska will de-
liver the Memorial day address at Richford.
w. e. MORSE has been appointed assist
ant postmaster at Burlington by Mr.. Beck
with.
REV. WILLIAM GREENWOOD has closed his
pastorate with the Windsor Congregational
church.
EDWIN A. START, editor of the franklin
(Mass) Sentinel, is to be night editor OF the
Rutland Herald.
REV. Il. w. WHITNEY of Brattleboro has
received a call from the First Universaist
church of Cincinnati
THE East Berkshire Congregational church
was dedicated March 3. Rev. w. l.. Ander-
son preached the sermon.
EDITOR SWAIN of the Bellows Falls Times
has been elected president of the Connect
cut River Poultry Association.
REV. G. S. SARGENT, pastor of the New
Haven Congregational church, has an
nounced his intention of resigning.
CLAYTON KEITH of Newport has been
offered $500 for the copyright of a book
which he is preparing for publication.
REV. S. w. CLEMENS, a member OF the
Troy conference and well-known in Yer
mont, died recently at Hagaman's Mills,
NY
Hon. NJ. b. CARPENTER of Denver, form
erly OF Barre ana OJ. AlDdnS mas Deen
elected to the presidency of the Colorado
senate.
The funeral of Colonel A. b. Jewett at
Swanton was largely attended Friday. A
large number of Masons and Grand Army
men W we're present.
SENATOR MORRILL, and wife will soon
start for a trip to Florida, and will visit
their son, who is engaged in business at
Briarville, Alabama.
If nj hos ham IN
pointed postal clerk on the route over the
Rutland division between St. Adams and
Troy, vice j. G. Dean.
GEORGE HALL, employed in the paper-mill
in West Derby, was caught in the betting
Saturday and instantly killed. He leaves
widow and three children.
GEORGE ID. LEONARD of Hinesburgh has
the trowel which General Lafayette used in
laying the cornerstone of the building of
the University of Vermont.
DIR. j. GIBSON JOHNSON of Rutland, who
has one of the finest herds of cattle in this
country, has recently purchased a Jersey
heifer for which he paid $4,000.
A NUMBER of Italian stone-cutters have
gone from West Rutland to Marietta, Ga,
where they have found employment with
the American Marble Company.
Bow-AND.ARRow POINT, one of the love-
lest spots on Lake Champlan. has been
purchased by the American Canoe Associa-
ton. The annual meeting will be held
there this summer.
IT has been found that the man who, a few
Sundays ago, so distinguished himself by
his queer actions at the Van Ness House,
Burlington, is named William James Fresno
and that his people live in South Hero.
ANTOINE SHARKEY was instantly killed
while at work in SALISBURY. He was walk
ing in front of an oX-team when he slipped
and fell The oxen and heavy load of
loUS pagaaH his holy brpalxipu his ppclx
and back.
PROFESSOR HERBERT FUTILE, formerly
connected with the University of Vermont,
has just been elected professor of English
constitutional history and international law
in the new law department of Cornell
University.
T. l.. KINNEY of South Hero shipped six
carloads of apples the past winter to New
York without heat of any kind. They were
all shipped in butter-cars, which are built
double and intended to be as near ar-tight
as possible.
THERE is some complaint in this vicinity,
as well as in other parts of the state, re-
garding vexatious delays in the mail service,
consequent on the habit of carrying by ~
and other faults of the present system.-lSt.
Adams Messenger.
AT the opening of the Rutland county
court resolutions were adopted in relation
to the death of the late James G. Barrett,
ernor Ormsbee, Colonel A. f. Walker, Hon.
j. G. Baker and others.
For five years prior to 1886 the town of
Eden had the town system of schools, but
owing to inclement weather it was voted
down one year ago. At the last annual
meeting the town again adopted the sys-
TEN by small majority.
JOHN PoQUETTE of Newport Center left his
home four weeks ago to go across the noun
tain to BedelFs mill, near Montgomery
Center, to procure atfidavits in his pension
claim. He has not been heard from since,
and it is feared he has persisted.
A HOUSEWIFE in Woodford makes butter
use of large family. - William r. Cut
Ter has one rooster in his large flock of fowls
that carries plunage of nine distinct hues
of feathers.-Correspondent Troy Times.
THE people at Somerset, little place of
sixty-seven inhabitants, connected with the
outer world by semi-weekly stages say they
nave never seen such an amount OF snow in
their town as now. 1t measures ninety
eight inches ON level and the ponds and
streams are frozen to their very bottoms.
FREIGHT CONDUCTOR JOSEPH MURRAY of
the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain railroad,
while making up train at Rouse's Point
Friday had one of his feet caught in a frog,
and before he could eXtricate it several cars
rushed upon him, cutting off his leg near
the knee and injuring the balance of the
limb clear up to the body. Death resulted
early that evening
AMONG the appropriations for Memorial
day the towns of St. Adams, st. Johns
bury and Bellows Falls made 500 each
Barre, SO; the towns of Montpelier Hart
ford, Manchester, Fair Haven, Windsor
Bethel, Brattleboro and Arlington, $50
each; Hardwick, S40 and Fairfax Rich
ford, Swanton, Milton, Jericho, Mortified
Danville, Lyndon and Putney 1915 each.
REV. WILLIAM GREENWOOD having re-
signed his pastorate over the Congregational
church in Windsor large number of the
church and society have presented him with
a beautiful and costly ice-pitcher and COB
lets, with the following neatly engraved
thereon, our Temperance Leader" as a
testimonial of their esteem for him as an
earnest and sincere Christian and pastor.
THE trestle-work over White river at
West Hartford, which was put up after the
recent destruction of the bridge, contains
255,OOO feet of timber and yet this substan,
tial structure, costing thousands of dollars
is likely to be carried away when the ice
goes out, necessitating the immediate build.
ing of a similar bridge. The 255, 900 feet OF
timber which will be required to replace
the trestle-work is already prepared for the
expected emergency.
THE first liquor prosecution by the Ben.
nington Law and Order League was con.
cluded last week, after two days trial
James Il. Fitzgerald, respondent was found
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